Ix Chel Mendieta, a graduate of Mercy High School Burlingame, will attend the University of Rochester in New York and enter the prestigious Hajim School of Engineering and Sciences.

An outstanding athlete, she will play softball at the university. At Mercy, where she was an honor student, she lettered in cross country, water polo and was a four year varsity softball starter, team captain and all-leaguer. She is also a 2013 Pacifica Sports Club award recipient.

Mendieta played for the Pacifica Girls Softball League, the West Bay Nuggets and the StriKKers 18Gold in San Jose. She is the daughter of Kim Torres and Arturo M Velazquez and granddaughter of Pacifica Sports Hall of Fame member Valerie Torres. She attended Good Shepherd School and played CYO Basketball and AYSO Soccer.

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